PENMORFA, a village and a parish in the district of Festiniog and county of Carnarvon. The village stands 1 mile W of Tremadoc, and 2 W N W of Portmadoc r.station; and has fairs on 14 May, 10 Aug., 15 Sept., and 11 Nov. The parish comprises 10, 157 acres. Post-town, Tremadoc, under Carnarvon. Real property, £3, 225; of which £20 are in quarries. Pop., 1, 104. Houses, 256. The property is subdivided. Much of the area is upland and waste. The living is a rectory, united with the p. curacy of Dolbenmaen, in the diocese of Bangor. Value, £290.* Patron, the Bishop of Bangor. The church is good, and contains monuments to Sir John Owen and Sir Joseph Hubbert. There are a Baptist chapel, three Calvinistic Methodist chapels, and charities £7.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))